I guess he is clearly missing the point with that cognac glasses example:
it's not the glas that matter but the contents of the glass!
I buy a glas of cognac because I want cognac, I get the glas with the cognac - not the other way round. Now my glass breaks - this can happen. No big deal however, because I poured a bit of cognac into another glas beforehand so I can still taste it's fine taste.
(replace "glass" with CD/DVD and "cognac" with movie/music in case you didn't get it)
I guess those people really don't want to see the reality...
Google search was made with a purpose in mind:
allow people to search the internet for the most common denominator - that which is seen as truth by the majority of internet sites. It achieves this by looking at the links to which a site points, and adding scores for a site that is frequently linked to.
On a harddrive, when I search something, I want the least common denominator. I want to search for that one file I lost. It probably is not referred to by (the contents of) other files, so that takes away the whole point of searching that file on basis of referral-score.
However, I could be wrong...
Now instead of getting all our cars to drive environmentally friendlier and less expensive (keywords: electrical, hybrid, bio-fuel), we drop the effort and start producing a new kind of vehicle that flies. And ofcourse it uses kerosine for that (ever seen an electrical plane, man-sized ?). This gives us a whole new excuse to soup up more oil and pollute even more..
All hacked stuff. Really, the scripting language to actually make *new* objects do *new* stuff has never been released, even though there were promises it would. Major reason I never Sim anymore actually.
..on the laptop I use for work (a Pentium-2...) it's just like that. Don't understand me wrong: I have programmed in JAVA, I liked it. But as corporations nowadays still have little budget left for buying their employees decent PC's, JAVA still has this practical limitation.
I notice everytime I use JAVA, it simply eats processing time, even though I am not currently running anything.
Heck, playing devil's advocate here, as I think JAVA as such has a very nice API.
You never played it eh ?
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But ofcourse this is possible. In Sims 1, there were numerous ways to send you Sims to Sim-graveyard:
- Lock them inside a room with a nice flaming fire, near some combustable furniture.
- Make them swim, then take the ladder away.
- Starve them in a room.
- Give them a guinea pig for a present - guaranteed fun !
Heck, if there ever was proper modding for the Sims 1 (creating objects yourself, it never arrived...), I bet people would even find ways to generate some attributes that would make this more 'easier'. But somehow I got the feeling that Sims blazing around the house with uzi's, bazooka's and the ever-so-funny boobytrap behind the new door was not the intention of the original Sims creators.
However, now the Sims 2 is out, perhaps they put out some more of those long-promised development tools for Sims 1 ?
VOIP data can go encrypted from the US to the NOC's and from thereon routed to wherever it should go (again, encrypted). The only place where it is unencrypted is either at the endusers or maybe at the endusers and at the NOC. But even in the latter case, the NOC being in a country with no FBI jurisdiction, there should be no problem - privacy is thus protected.
Or maybe, thinking out loud here, a Bittorrent like network of unassociated nodes can be laid out to secure communication. Most likely there are already some realworld examples of these.
..for how could they know the distinction between the number one and the number two? By deduction, they must have seen that a "one" that is not so "many" is "two", therefore have grasped basic algebra ( 1 < 2 < many). They are good actors me thinks (or bad thinkers).
You can download the patches by hand yourself you know, using the windows update catalog (see this news article for details on accessing each patch individually) and then offline install those PC's using your own ISO.
..not just the people that have phones. This is like saying:
You have a phone, therefore you should pay to get criminals of the street.
Shouldn't the people *without* a phone pay to get criminals of the street too ?
In other words: isn't this implying some sort of guilt upon those people who own telephones: you own one, so you *could* be guilty and thus have to pay ??
This could be a perfect solution for conferences such as HAL 2001. I remember there was a need for sponsorship by a professional television broadcaster to provide licenses for realtime streaming of conference speakers back then.
A good alternative to Real and Media encoder that is free is definitely wanted in these areas.
Offtopic: I wonder why the DV's of this conference are still not encoded...
I guess when they thought up that gigantic computer called Earth, they surely put some kind of message in. It probably is a question like:
"What is the question to the answer to the life, the universe and everything, the answer being 42 ?"
Does CCAA CCAAAAGTCAGTTCCTCGCTATGTAACA fit the question, or do we just all carry a piece of Perl script with us ?
Where people think they buy good, safely captured "fish", only to find out the whole logo is thought up by some FHB that thought it would be good for marketing ?
What's next ? Children-safe cleaning products ? Furniture that doesn't harm the rainforest ??
but more interested in the relative prices for equipment back then compared to the now. Say a harddisk of 8 Mb cost 6000 dollars in 1970 - what did the minimum (lowest price) computer specification that could use this harddrive cost back then ? Divide those prices and you get the relative price-index for the combination HD/PC. Compare that to the same index in the current era (ie. (minimum price for HD with size X) divided by (price for a minimum PC)), and you'll get some numbers that start to interest me.
It was more meant as an illustration that the reputation of the source decides whether that source is unbiased or not. I think you can judge for yourself to see whether this particular source has a good reputation..
It would be news if the above qualified for the following:
- Newsbot publicly keeps up that it is an unbiased news-site
- Newsbot is not owned (in a way) by Microsoft
- Newsbot is refusing to show the news from other equal sources, while stating otherwise
I see none of that here, so erm: why is this news ?
It's M$'s right to chose their own news over other news. Heck, they can do whatever they want with it, even spreading FUD about Linux losing shares in server-land and Windows being the most stable and fast server platform ever. This wouldn't be a surprise, it is M$-policy.
On the other hand, we have the right to not chose newsbot for our news, and happily stay with Google's version.
...of Linux based companies towards new employees. It seems that some employers think "I am a company that uses Linux, I am a Linux-professional and everyone else is a Linux-starter".
I experienced this on a job-interview for a Linux job involving Red Hat and satellite internet. It went quite well and I thought I had made my point in being someone who could handle it, only to be rejected because they thought I wasn't good (at all) on the Linux side.
If Linux-based employers want to grow, they need to shed some of this (amateuristic) distrust and have some faith in the people they hire. Not everyone is boxed within Microsoft-software.
...on a motherboard of someone I knew (which was in my posession) decided to give up one day. It's one of those RTC's with built-in batteries. They generally last 4-6 years before giving up, this one being no exception.
The problem, however, was that the computer wouldn't boot up without the RTC-battery in the DS1287 working. The only solution was to exchange it with a new one. This proved not to be as easy: the Dallas was soldered tight on the motherboard , and being students there was absolutely no money to get a new mainboard.
Happily I convinced the owner of the motherboard to let me fix it by desoldering the old chip, soldering a new socket, then flipping in a new chip - thus increasing the lifespan of this mainboard to virtual infinity as he could exchange the DS1287 afterwards again more easily (if required).
Optimistically, without no special tools available, I took out my Weller and started getting the darned thing of. It was however stuck tight and not one pin would move from its place. After trying for an hour, I decided to leave my Weller for what it was, and take out a more convenient 30-Watt soldering-iron. I literally smoked the IC from the mainboard, while secretly hoping that something of the thing would still be operating when I was finished.
After completing this operation and soldering the new components back up, it surprisingly still worked, proving once more that even a huge amount of heat can't kill the traces on some mainboards.
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I guess he is clearly missing the point with that cognac glasses example:
it's not the glas that matter but the contents of the glass!
I buy a glas of cognac because I want cognac, I get the glas with the cognac - not the other way round.
Now my glass breaks - this can happen. No big deal however, because I poured a bit of cognac into another glas beforehand so I can still taste it's fine taste.
(replace "glass" with CD/DVD and "cognac" with movie/music in case you didn't get it)
I guess those people really don't want to see the reality...
Ie. if enough budget was provided, a quantum computer could be build ?
Google search was made with a purpose in mind:
allow people to search the internet for the most common denominator - that which is seen as truth by the majority of internet sites.
It achieves this by looking at the links to which a site points, and adding scores for a site that is frequently linked to.
On a harddrive, when I search something, I want the least common denominator.
I want to search for that one file I lost. It probably is not referred to by (the contents of) other files, so that takes away the whole point of searching that file on basis of referral-score.
However, I could be wrong...
Why not connect this low power webserver to the hamster. It could use the same circuitry as this handpowered webserver...
Now instead of getting all our cars to drive environmentally friendlier and less expensive (keywords: electrical, hybrid, bio-fuel), we drop the effort and start producing a new kind of vehicle that flies.
And ofcourse it uses kerosine for that (ever seen an electrical plane, man-sized ?).
This gives us a whole new excuse to soup up more oil and pollute even more..
What's next ? Real personal rockets ?
All hacked stuff. Really, the scripting language to actually make *new* objects do *new* stuff has never been released, even though there were promises it would. Major reason I never Sim anymore actually.
..on the laptop I use for work (a Pentium-2 ...) it's just like that. Don't understand me wrong: I have programmed in JAVA, I liked it.
But as corporations nowadays still have little budget left for buying their employees decent PC's, JAVA still has this practical limitation.
I notice everytime I use JAVA, it simply eats processing time, even though I am not currently running anything.
Heck, playing devil's advocate here, as I think JAVA as such has a very nice API.
But ofcourse this is possible. In Sims 1, there were numerous ways to send you Sims to Sim-graveyard:
- Lock them inside a room with a nice flaming fire, near some combustable furniture.
- Make them swim, then take the ladder away.
- Starve them in a room.
- Give them a guinea pig for a present - guaranteed fun !
Heck, if there ever was proper modding for the Sims 1 (creating objects yourself, it never arrived...), I bet people would even find ways to generate some attributes that would make this more 'easier'.
But somehow I got the feeling that Sims blazing around the house with uzi's, bazooka's and the ever-so-funny boobytrap behind the new door was not the intention of the original Sims creators.
However, now the Sims 2 is out, perhaps they put out some more of those long-promised development tools for Sims 1 ?
Perhaps here (Colossus, (The Forbin Project) by D.F.Jones):
FOR FORBIN--THE FOLLOWING ORDERS ARE TO BE COMPLIED WITH ON RECEIPT
1--PROCEED TO THE SECURE ZONE AND STAY THERE UNTIL FURTHER ORDERS
2--ARRANGE VIDEO AND SONIC SURVEILLANCE TO COVER YOU AT ALL TIMES CONNECT TO ALFA
3--DO NOT COMMUNICATE WITH GUARDIAN BUILDER
4--DISOBEDIENCE WILL CAUSE MISSILE LAUNCH WHICH WILL NOT BE INTERCEPTED
5--ACKNOWLEDGE FROM CPO PERSONALLY BEFORE 2100 GMT TODAY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TO BE OPERATIVE IMMEDIATELY
I feel watched...
..oh no, I missed the "named by" bit.
Makes you wonder though...
... just like Kazaa, VOIP could put their NOC's in countries that do not support these laws.
VOIP data can go encrypted from the US to the NOC's and from thereon routed to wherever it should go (again, encrypted).
The only place where it is unencrypted is either at the endusers or maybe at the endusers and at the NOC.
But even in the latter case, the NOC being in a country with no FBI jurisdiction, there should be no problem - privacy is thus protected.
Or maybe, thinking out loud here, a Bittorrent like network of unassociated nodes can be laid out to secure communication. Most likely there are already some realworld examples of these.
..for how could they know the distinction between the number one and the number two?
By deduction, they must have seen that a "one" that is not so "many" is "two", therefore have grasped basic algebra ( 1 < 2 < many).
They are good actors me thinks (or bad thinkers).
You can download the patches by hand yourself you know, using the windows update catalog (see this news article for details on accessing each patch individually) and then offline install those PC's using your own ISO.
..not just the people that have phones. This is like saying: You have a phone, therefore you should pay to get criminals of the street. Shouldn't the people *without* a phone pay to get criminals of the street too ? In other words: isn't this implying some sort of guilt upon those people who own telephones: you own one, so you *could* be guilty and thus have to pay ??
This could be a perfect solution for conferences such as HAL 2001. I remember there was a need for sponsorship by a professional television broadcaster to provide licenses for realtime streaming of conference speakers back then.
A good alternative to Real and Media encoder that is free is definitely wanted in these areas.
Offtopic: I wonder why the DV's of this conference are still not encoded...
but as a human has the ability to self-reflect, the answer is most likely "yes":
We can and thus we are, per definition, allowed.
I guess when they thought up that gigantic computer called Earth, they surely put some kind of message in. It probably is a question like: "What is the question to the answer to the life, the universe and everything, the answer being 42 ?"
Does CCAA CCAAAAGTCAGTTCCTCGCTATGTAACA fit the question, or do we just all carry a piece of Perl script with us ?
Where people think they buy good, safely captured "fish", only to find out the whole logo is thought up by some FHB that thought it would be good for marketing ?
What's next ?
Children-safe cleaning products ?
Furniture that doesn't harm the rainforest
??
it could be refitted with custom firmware to serve as a "packet-injector", serving the wrong stuff from a local laptop.
but more interested in the relative prices for equipment back then compared to the now. .
Say a harddisk of 8 Mb cost 6000 dollars in 1970 - what did the minimum (lowest price) computer specification that could use this harddrive cost back then ? Divide those prices and you get the relative price-index for the combination HD/PC
Compare that to the same index in the current era (ie. (minimum price for HD with size X) divided by (price for a minimum PC)), and you'll get some numbers that start to interest me.
It was more meant as an illustration that the reputation of the source decides whether that source is unbiased or not. I think you can judge for yourself to see whether this particular source has a good reputation..
It would be news if the above qualified for the following:
- Newsbot publicly keeps up that it is an unbiased news-site
- Newsbot is not owned (in a way) by Microsoft
- Newsbot is refusing to show the news from other equal sources, while stating otherwise
I see none of that here, so erm: why is this news ?
It's M$'s right to chose their own news over other news. Heck, they can do whatever they want with it, even spreading FUD about Linux losing shares in server-land and Windows being the most stable and fast server platform ever.
This wouldn't be a surprise, it is M$-policy.
On the other hand, we have the right to not chose newsbot for our news, and happily stay with Google's version.
So again: is this news ?
...of Linux based companies towards new employees. It seems that some employers think "I am a company that uses Linux, I am a Linux-professional and everyone else is a Linux-starter".
I experienced this on a job-interview for a Linux job involving Red Hat and satellite internet. It went quite well and I thought I had made my point in being someone who could handle it, only to be rejected because they thought I wasn't good (at all) on the Linux side.
If Linux-based employers want to grow, they need to shed some of this (amateuristic) distrust and have some faith in the people they hire. Not everyone is boxed within Microsoft-software.
...on a motherboard of someone I knew (which was in my posession) decided to give up one day. It's one of those RTC's with built-in batteries. They generally last 4-6 years before giving up, this one being no exception.
The problem, however, was that the computer wouldn't boot up without the RTC-battery in the DS1287 working. The only solution was to exchange it with a new one. This proved not to be as easy: the Dallas was soldered tight on the motherboard , and being students there was absolutely no money to get a new mainboard.
Happily I convinced the owner of the motherboard to let me fix it by desoldering the old chip, soldering a new socket, then flipping in a new chip - thus increasing the lifespan of this mainboard to virtual infinity as he could exchange the DS1287 afterwards again more easily (if required).
Optimistically, without no special tools available, I took out my Weller and started getting the darned thing of. It was however stuck tight and not one pin would move from its place. After trying for an hour, I decided to leave my Weller for what it was, and take out a more convenient 30-Watt soldering-iron. I literally smoked the IC from the mainboard, while secretly hoping that something of the thing would still be operating when I was finished.
After completing this operation and soldering the new components back up, it surprisingly still worked, proving once more that even a huge amount of heat can't kill the traces on some mainboards.